The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma

Fauna of British India. Cestodes. Vol. I

After a full discussion of the many attempts that have been made in recent years to formulate a working classification of the Cestoda, the author of this book suggests still another. He divides the Class into tw? Orders, Cestodaria and Eucestoda, which has the merit of simplicity and consistency, in that it makes a clear division between the Monozootic and Polyzootic cestodes, and which consequ...

The Fevers of British Burma

before us the sanitary report of the province for the year 1875, and the remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission thereon, which contain important and interesting information regarding the fevers of British Burma, a brief precis of which we propose to record. It appears that of 40,570 deaths registered in the province during the year 1875, 25,075, or 62'11 per cent, of the whole, were attributed...

Vegetable Materia Medica of India and Ceylon

The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of India and Ceylon

The history of medicine in India and Burma.

THE study of the history of ancient Indian medicine in the Indian sub-continent as a special subject by practitioners of modem medicine, is of comparatively recent origin; some eminent Indian physicians, however, have interested themselves in the subject and have published short articles in the Indian medical press from time to time. Notably one or two have recently published small treatises on...